The tourism rebuild must negotiate a delicate balance between immediate recovery and long term sustainability. New tourism models must reduce the sector’s emissions while maintaining as much as possible its income and employment benefits, and an Australia-New Zealand-Pacific travel bubble is one solution.
The 'One Planet Vision for the Responsible Recovery of the Tourism Sector' builds on the UNWTO Global Guidelines to Restart Tourism, with the aim to emerge stronger and more sustainable from the COVID-19 crisis.
Six non-governmental organisations have come together to call for a rebalance in tourism as the sector recovers from COVID-19. The Future of Tourism Coalition shares a global mission: to place destination needs at the centre of tourism’s new future.
The global pandemic has provided an opportunity to redesign the tourism landscape and industry to be sustainable and truly equitable - and to reform the industry’s exploitations of people and places.
According charity ClientEarth, Portugal's plan to build a new airport on the the Tagus Estuary would adversely affect hundreds of thousands of migratory birds. Along with 7 other NGOs, they have filed a court action against the government.
